1+ week, 2+ day ago   (239+ words) When I was a kid, our car gave up the ghost on the A1 and we had to walk a ways to call for assistance. The village we first came to, as I recall, was devoid of anyone or anything helpful…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (274+ words) Today in "things I never thought I would type:" Refrigeration units in multiple military commissaries across the United States may have been hacked. A Defense Department official told Military Times that there was "a possible refrigeration disruption at some Defense…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (399+ words) The Supreme Court of the United States today allowed construction of a massive ballroom on the White House grounds to continue, though Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that it's "probably illegal." The majority instead dodged the issue, ruling 5-4 that the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (279+ words) Nancy Grace Roman (no) was NASA's first woman executive and the creator of its space-based astronomy program; her great success being the Hubble Space Telescope, still operational after nearly four decades in space. Her namesake observatory has a similar mirror…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (329+ words) MIT's building that houses its Department of Chemistry was shut down on August 27 after a grad student "self-reported to a local emergency room and claimed to have synthesized dimethyl mercury," according to MIT Emergency Management. MIT says the building has…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (387+ words) No? What about everyone's hate for Mark Zuckerberg? Can we all rally around that? That feels like it'd be hella healing too. Instead of being adored by one faction and reviled by the other, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is simply…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (389+ words) A lawsuit in El Paso County, Colorado, claims that chronic understaffing at Dollar Tree stores has made the national chain a "hunting ground" for public masturbators—and that the company has taken no serious action to prevent it. The Denver…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (387+ words) "Zero immigration for the next 20 years. No ifs, no buts," wrote far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulis on social media last year. Today the Briton was taken into custody by ICE, having allegedly overstayed since last legally entering the county in 2019 and…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (325+ words) Pompous scholars were a standard joke on the Italian stage through the 16th century. Arnoud Visser writes in The Public Domain Review that Francesco Belo, a playwright from Rome, published the first play to put one at the center. In El…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (367+ words) Reading this story made me so damn tired: as part of their effort to replace human employees with delivery robots, DoorDash has come up with a cunning plan: they're gonna use the human employees they want to replace to load…...